2023 SEXUALITY, INTEGRITY & THE UNIVERSITY (SIU)
NATIONAL COLLEGIATE CONFERENCE
Friday, 10/27, and Saturday, 10/28
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The Sexuality, Integrity, and the University (SIU) national conference convenes students, scholars, and experts from across the country to equip the college students with the best academic resources and arguments needed to bring the message of love and fidelity to college campuses.
Conference participants will find ample opportunity to network with and learn from each other and can attend sessions by experts who will present recent research and findings on the topics of marriage, family, and sexual integrity.
All conference meals are included in the cost of admission along with housing for undergraduates Friday and Saturday nights. Arrive on Friday and depart on Sunday for out-of-town students. Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, Princeton, NJ
2023 Speaker’s Profile
Brad Wilcox
Keynote Speaker – Friday 10/27
W. Bradford Wilcox is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Professor Wilcox’s research has focused on marriage, fatherhood, and cohabitation, especially on the ways that family structure, civil society, and culture influence the quality and stability of family life in the United States and around the globe. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, National Review Online, NPR, NBC’s The Today Show, and many other media outlets.
Wilcox consults regularly with companies such as Nestle, Procter & Gamble, and Kimberly-Clark on fertility and marriage trends in the United States. As an undergraduate, Wilcox was a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia (’92) and later earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Prior to coming to the University of Virginia, he held research fellowships at Princeton University, Yale University, and the Brookings Institution.
Rachael Killackey
Rachael is the Founder & Executive Director of Magdala Ministries. Magdala exists as a space where women can find hope, healing, and freedom alongside each other from sexual addiction. We know that pornography, masturbation, and other sexual addictions aren’t just a “guy problem.”
She is a Colorado native (depending on your definition of native) who earned her bachelors and masters degrees in theology from Ave Maria University. After beginning to share her testimony in college, Rachael has had the privilege of hearing dozens of beautiful stories of healing from sexual addiction, and is pursuing certification in sexual addiction therapy. Rachael married her husband, Tommy, in 2021 and they now live in Tampa, FL, with their daughter—where she enjoys the beach (almost) as much as she enjoys the mountains. Her book, Love in Recovery, is available through Ave Maria Press.
Carrie Gress
Carrie Gress, Ph.D., is a Fellow at the Washington, D.C. based think-tank, Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Scholar at the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America.
She has a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America and is the editor at the online women’s magazine Theology of Home.
Carrie’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including Aleteia, Catholic Vote, Catholic World Report, National Review, Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Newsweek, Real Clear Politics, The Catholic Thing, The Epoch Times, The Federalist, The National Catholic Register, The Stream, and The Washington Examiner. She is a frequent radio and podcast guest and has appeared on Fox, BBC, CBC, EWTN, OAN, and Russia Times television.
Carrie has lived and worked professionally in Washington, D.C. and Rome, Italy and her work has been translated into nine languages.
Her next book, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Destroyed Us, with Regnery is due August 2023.
Jason Carroll
Jason S. Carroll, Ph.D., has been the Associate Director of the Wheatley Institution since September 2018. He is also a Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University and a Senior Fellow for the Institute for Family Studies.
He received his Ph.D. in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Carroll is an internationally-recognized researcher and educator in the areas of marriage readiness among young adults, marital intimacy, the effectiveness of marriage education, and modern threats to marriage – such as delayed age at marriage, materialism, pornography, relational aggression, and non-marital childbirth.
Dr. Carroll’s work has been featured in the Economist, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other popular media and news outlets.
He is best known for his theoretical contributions to relationship science, namely his development of Marital Horizon Theory, Sexual Restraint Theory, and a Developmental Model of Marital Competence.
Emma Waters
Emma Waters is a Research Associate for the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion and Family at The Heritage Foundation. Her work focuses on marriage and family, the life issue, and assisted reproductive technology policy.
Emma is also a Visiting Fellow with Independent Women’s Forum where she writes on issues related to culture, sex and gender, and the family. Prior to this, she worked as the Coalitions Manager of American Moment and periodically cohosted their podcast, Moment of Truth. Previously, she worked as a Research Intern with the Institute for Family Studies and a Research Consultant for the Realignment Podcast. In 2021, she won the American Enterprise Institutes’ Young Scholars Award where she wrote and published an in-depth paper on child support policy in the state of Tennessee, including qualitative interviews with 25 nonresident fathers.
Her work may be found in The Federalist, The American Conservative, The American Mind, the Institute for Family Studies, The Daily Signal, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, and more. She graduated Valedictorian of Lee University with a double major in Political Science and Biblical & Theological Studies.
Emma lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and their daughter.